Hear the Screams from Everywhere [open]

[Madeline Wayne]

Halloween Night, 18:00 hours
Gotham City Police Department

~There has been no recent criminal activity and all zones have been cleared, sir.
~Good, but make sure that all units are aware and stay alert.
~Very well, sir. I'll radio all units.

The idea for a complete clean-up and redesign of the Gotham streets was a triple tag team proposition from the commissioner, district attorney and mayor presented to the inhabitants of the city about a month ago. With the sponsorship and occasional support of the cities big and important people, like the Bruce Wayne, the plan was guaranteed to be a success. For the first few weeks, the police were out in full force and suppressed most criminal issues. And since then, things had been going on without any issue. Police morale was as high as ever and casualties were at an all time low. Corruption within the department was not as prevalent and most people were happy with the change.

As a result of all of this change in Gotham, Madeline was granted a reprieve from her heroine duties. There were the few times that her services were actually needed to retain major villains, but the police department had it figured out most of the time and no Batgirl meant that Maddie had more time to engage in other social or not-so-social things in life. The meetings that were held in the Wayne Board room were attended, unlike usual, and charity parties were properly taken care of as well. Not counting the whole Batgirl, detective thing, Madeline was actually getting some fulfillment from life that didn't involve leaping from buildings and running down criminals.

The occurrences of vigilantism also went on the decline. It was a bit out of character for Gotham City; however, there was always a general dislike of most vigilantes, minus Batman and his cohorts and a few others. But the expression says: "All good things come to an end" and even the most well thought out and executed plans of the Gotham triumvirate could end up failing in the end.

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With the feeling that some thing would go awry, Madeline took to the gothic buildings and slums that lined the streets of the City of Darkness. Though it had been a little while since she had taken to her bat themed suit and the Gotham night, Madeline was able to navigate herself through the alleyways and rooftops with the same agility she had before. The night air filled her nostrils and lungs with every huff and breath that she took and caressed her skin when she glided or zip lined from one building to another. She was truly in her element and, despite having non-crime fighting engagements for the last few weeks, Madeline was not one to deny that this was where she was at her best and had the most 'fun'.

Batgirl zipped up to a ledge on the Wayne Enterprises building and took the time to plot exactly what she would do. This bad feeling that she had was probably just a reflex because it was Halloween and lots of odd things happened on Halloween, especially in Gotham. The bat-signal hadn't shone on the dark Gotham sky and probably wouldn't as long as the police felt like they were invincible. But, whatever was giving Madeline this feeling, she knew that it was going to give the GCPD a hard time. If only she could figure out what was causing her suspicion.

After running through a possible list of suspects and ruling them all out because or Arkham or some other circumstance, Batgirl crouched on the ledge of her family's company building and sighed. It appeared that she would just have to wait for some sort of sign.

[Morphia]

Morphia was walking back to her hotel room after a long night of negotiations. It was all laid out for Mord Bande to play a gig in Gotham city, which would be perfect giving the dark nature of this place, mutants, meta-humans and general miscreants of all types would line the streets for tickets and that meant that Morphia would have a pretty penny lining her pocket.

Tonight was Halloween, which made Morphia miss Budapest where she'd spent the last few Halloweens hosting Blood Raine's big halloween events, last year she'd worn a leather period gown and carried a ridding crop, there were some great pictures from that evening. But tonight was all work, maybe next year Mord Bande would be big enough to play Budapest on Halloween.
Deep in her thoughts Morphia didn't notice that the street traffic had picked up in a darker area of town.
"Must be something going on." She said to her self.
Then she noted a smell that was accompanying the staggering 'party goers'.
"What is this place a trash heap?" She asked grabbing one of the guys besides her shoulder, only to find the arm in her hand, and the man turning to try and bite her?
Letting out a scream Morphia dropped the appendage and took off running as fast as her feet would carry her, drawing the gun she wore from it's concealed holster in her Jacket she was about ready to fire off a few rounds.

[victorlance]

With a crackling "zoosh!" sound a pair of beams flew beyond Morphia and nearly disintegrated the ghouley that had been chasing her. Her small gun would only be so effective, but his nega-bands would put them back in the ground! Yes, the heroic Black Marvel was on the scene, taking a few steps back from his position he got a running jump and performed quite a stylish flip off the building, twirling and spinning as he did.

With trained grace and balance he landed between the woman and the dozen or so zombies that were giving her chase. "I'm gonna have to ask yea to cover your ears Ma'am! Just for a second." And with that he turned back to face the shambling dead before unleashing one of his mighty screams! The sonic attack tore undead flesh from rotting bone and within moments they were just a pile of bits n pieces.

"We better get you to safety, that's the fourth lot of these things I've come across." Who knew how many more were out there.....

[lily]

Gotham City was one of those locations that attracted the lowest of the low scum to the high profile mobsters. It was the perfect place for a person like Lily to conduct business. In Gotham City there were always people that needed to be killed and she was the best at doing so. Early today she had bee hired out to take down a rival mob leader and his lame cronies. Of course it goes without saying; she was successful at doing so. She lopped off the fat bastard’s head and delivered it on a civil platter to her employer, literally.

With that job done, the girl spent the rest of the day just relaxing in a shady hotel. Getting a little hungry, Lily ventured out into the city to snag up a couple of snack items to devour. What she did not count on happening was being greeted by a horde of undead, mindless creatures commonly known as zombies. She stared at the sluggish horde in front of her as she stepped out onto a street. Peering further down she saw a young woman wielding a hand gun, running for her life. Lily had no interest in helping to the woman.

Luckily for her there was another person on the scene, this one fire off energy beams. As Lily stood watching the events unfold, she felt the presence of a zombie trying to creep up on her. All six of her bone claws ripped through the skin of her forearm. She swung her left arm around delivering a decapitating slash. The head of the unfortunate zombie rolled to the side. Giving a slight snarl, Lily began her onslaught of the zombie race.

[Madeline Wayne]

Deep in thought and waiting for her sign, The Mistress of Darkness remained in her crouched position and listened keenly. So far, there had been a few police cars that had zoomed by with their lights blazing and sirens blaring but that was the absolute worse of it. And Batgirl had no real inclination to investigate because the super Gotham police would be on the scene and handily take care of it. Batgirl occasionally found herself drifting to other thoughts of villains and what might be prowling the Gotham streets on a night like this--Halloween night--but caught those wandering theories and forced her mind and her body to focus intently.

A group people passed on the sidewalk below her and were clearly in a drunken uproar; with all of the yelling that they were doing, it was best that Batgirl just assumed that and let them go on. No unusual activity for any person unafraid of the night and/or looking for a good time. Letting her eyes follow them until they disappeared around a corner, The Mistress of Darkness turned her head back to its previous position and waited. No signs just yet.

~ Edmund, did the computer gather any intel yet?

Maddie's Batgirl's attempt at a disguised, rougher voice flooded into the Batcave communications link and waited for any response. It was rather odd just waiting around for something to happen. Before she left the house, in typical situations, Maddie would gather her intelligence and make sure that she was prepared for the possible situations. Her preparation varied among the different situations, but it was nice to actually be prepared; without certain equipment packed in her utility belt and a decisive plan, just about any Bat could, essentially, be screwed. Looking down at her belt again, Batgirl felt the items in the compartments.

Kryptonite ring, mini-flash grena---

~ Batgirl, there has still been no changes on the computer's readings… except there is a large collection of people around the nineteenth street near Harlow Park

~ I'm on it.

Closing the link, the Batgirl pondered for a moment and determined the direction she would need to travel in order to arrive at her desired destination. Harlow Park was somewhere to the north and west of her current position and nineteenth street was a bit more west, so she could approximate the degree at which she would be heading. Maps of Gotham were practically drilled into her head when she was younger, solely for the purpose of knowing where she was, where she needed to go and how she could get there. Silently thanking her father, Batgirl stood atop the Wayne Tower before hopping off of ledge and into the night.

For a few seconds, Batgirl remained in her descent and felt the surge of air against the exposed part of her face. Free fall gave a kinda of adrenaline rush that was only attainable while she was in the guise of the Caped Crusader. But as wonderful as it felt, Batgirl was not invulnerable and wouldn't be able to survive a fall from the six-hundred plus foot drop. In order to propel her body in the proper direction, Batgirl did her best to grab both ends of her fluttering cape and sent a small jolt of electricity through it. The cape became inelastic and allowed the wind to carry her over several dim buildings before landing on the rooftop of an apartment complex.

Nineteenth street was below and the park was a little ways in the distance. She had hit her target perfectly. Trying not to be too proud of herself, the Mistress of Darkness scanned the area for any disturbances, as described by the computer and relayed by Edmund. She noticed a couple people up ahead and a group of others… it wasn't exactly out of place for Gotham City, but somehow it wasn't quite right either. Leaping off of the rooftop, Batgirl pulled a couple batarangs from her utility belts and tossed them towards the group that appeared to have more of a malicious aura about them. One of the projectiles hit a person in the chest, while she other hit one in the leg and sent a jolt of electricity through the group members body.

Batgirl approached the two figures set apart from the stumbling crowd and saw more clearly the figure of a man and a woman. She nodded to them.

"What's going on he--?"[/color]

Her gruff woman voice passed her lips once more, but she couldn't quite finish her sentence when she noticed someone else. They appeared to be handling the situation, but the thing that mostly caught her attention was the fact that these members of the hobbling band were attacking that person… much like the group mentality of drones or those under mind control.